Re: [Condor-users] Windows 2000 / Visible Desktop

[Ben Burnett <burnett@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi  Kristian:
 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: condor-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:condor-users-
> bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Desjardins, Kristian
> Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2008 9:23 AM
> To: condor-users@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [Condor-users] Windows 2000 / Visible Desktop
> 
> I am having problems with Windows 2000 Professional and the
> "USE_VISIBLE_DESKTOP" option.  I have tried condor 6.8.8, 7.0.1 and
> 7.1.0 and they all behave the same.
> 
> On a freshly booted system, I will see the condor_starter process and
> all sub processes use the Windows Station handle of winsta0 and the
> application is visible.  After a number of jobs, the processes will
> have
> a separate session handles like "WindowsStation-XXX-XXX" and I will
> received the error:
> 
> 6/18 14:47:11 Create_Process: Unable to use visible desktop
> 
> I believe I have tracked down the problem to the
> "setuserobjectsecurity"
> system call which returns the ERROR_NOT_ENOUGH_QUOTA error code.
> Please
> see http://support.microsoft.com/kb/185292  It looks like ACE's may not
> be free'd at some point and I don't know how to fix the problem.


Yes, we have been made aware of this bug and are working on a fix for 
the next release.  As you guessed, we are not properly releasing old 
sessions from the desktops list of permitted users.  We never anticipated
users running with the option turned on all the time, it was intended for
debugging purposes, but it appears that more and more people are using it
in production.  Sorry for the inconvenience.


> Also, Condor 7.0.2 does not even start on windows 2000 pro.  I get the
> following error:
> 
> 6/17 09:44:45 ERROR "Unexpected performance counter size for working
> set: 4 (expected 8)" at line 2878 in file
> ..\src\condor_procapi\procapi.C

That's quite odd, is this still a fresh Win2K box? Does it have all the 
Service packs applied?  Have the performance counters been disabled or 
Otherwise changed?

Regards,
-B

btw, on a personal note, what is my Government using Condor for? (We can
take this part offline, since it's completely off topic for the list)